“Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet”

"What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet." – Gerard Manley Hopkins, born #OTD 1844 pic.twitter.com/8VR9U4KUrV

— Oxford Classics (@OWC_Oxford) July 28, 2018